Watch out for "fake" injury news this week which will allow stubborn Slav to make the changes everyone know he needs to make us more solid. Would not be surprised if our captain is rested for this one and we get the box to box energy Kouyate can give .

I think there's a decent case to be made for Byram and Masuaku to be our starting full-backs for the next couple of games (maybe not for Arsenal away). Let's get a bit of energy and forward drive and trickery in to our FB positions again. Let's see if attack can be our best form of defence out wide because we're certainly not shutting up shop even with supposedly more defensively-sound players there at present.

Cresswell needs a rest and/or kick up the bum and time to give Kouyate a go alongside Obiang given Noble's form. (Although I guess Bilic is more likely to push him across as a third CB).

That won't solve everything but it's definitely worth a go at the moment given the status quo is definitely not working.

Could Sakho be back for this one ? and back being the operative word. Just what is the extent of his back injury, that one appearance aside has sidelined him for 15 months? One other thing that has puzzled me is, in that brief appearance at Old Trafford in which he scored, he didn't look to me like a player who was unfit and neither do I recall he limped off with an injury and even if he had aggravated his back again, how come it has taken nearly 5 months to clear up?

Other than Cresswell, who needs to be dropped due to form, thats the best we have. Ayew can come inside when Byram overlaps because Leicester will just look to sit back and counter. We need to keep the ball and move it quickly. These aren't great but I feel the old trait of giving teams points or goals when they can't buy any at the time will rear its ugly head much like yesterday.

Proper fancied us to beat Bournemouth yesterday, but now i'm fearing the worst against a Leicester side on the up. I suspect Slav will make changes, but I think this could mean Byram coming in for Kouyate at RB and Noble staying in CDM, as annoying as that is. Ayew has to start, bar giving the ball away for their third goal yesterday (i'm sure we're top in terms of giving away goals from errors) he is starting to prove why he was worth the 20 mil.

We looked pretty poor yesterday so I'm going for a loss here. The remainder of the season might not be as comfortable as we all thought. It's been a funny old season. Personally I just wanted to stay up and avoid the embarrassment of getting relegated in our new 'stadium'. Hopefully we'll just about have enough firepower to do that. Get this season over and done with now and see where we are in the summer and how much our owners are willing to invest in the team....